The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-01-19
WESTERN.

A committee has been appointed 10y
the Missouri Legislature 10 examine into the
official character and accounts of State Auditor
Walter
The San Francisco produce exchange
finds the stock of wheat in the State and on
vessels in the harbor to be 400 900 tons, Of
which 90, coo tons are available for shipment
to Europe
Elder Cooper, Mormon evangelist,
is making converts at East Delavan, Wis, and
intends building Mormon church in the
spring.
San Francisco had an earthquake
shock which lasted for seven seconds, but did
no damage.
A new theater, to be known as the
Haymarket and to cost 500, 0O0 is to be built
on West Madison street, Chicago.
James l.. Perkins, the new Postmas-
ter at Clayton, Mich, was arrested for keep
ing a gambling-den, on the complaint of his
predecessor.
Robert A. Steele and Y. r. Marstel-
Ter, commission men at the St Louis Union
Stock Yards, and both well advanced in years,
quarreled about small debt, when Marsteler
drew a revolver and shot Steele dead The
murderer is in prison.
The Illinois State Grange, Patrons
of Husbandry, held its annual session at
Bloomington One hundred delegates, includ-
ing many women were in attendance,
Unknown persons removed the spikes
and fish plates on the Missouri Pacific track
near Dunbar, Neb., and passenger train was
wrecked, plunging down q fifteen foot en-
bankment The engineer was killed, the ex-
press messenger fatally hurt, and a woman
seriously injured All the passengers were
moro or less bruised
Frank James, the reformed train
robber, has gone to St Louis to obtain clerk
ship in n large retail store, and in the event Of
failure he intends to keep cigar stand He
dined with the judges and officers of the
courts, to when he was introduced by ex-
Governor Johnson
Some of the victims of the Haymar-
ket mas sacre are still suffering severely from
injuries sustaIne on that occasion, says a
Chicago dispatch Officer Mic shannon, who
was cut and torn in terrible manner by the
bomb, is again confined to his bed. Erysipe-
las has set in, though no serious consequences
are anticipated Officer McNulty is able to go
about on crutches and may eventually recov-
er the use of one of his legs Officer O'Bren,
another victim of the bomb explosion, 10 again
down.
A vein of natural gas was reached al
Marion, Ind, at depth of 5lS feet
Miss Fannie V. Baldwin, second
cousin of the San Francisco millionaire, whom
she once attempted to kill for or minal as
sault, has been temporarily committed to the
Home for the Friendless in Chicago, proceed.
ings in insanity being suspended
The screw steamship Celtic Monarch
was on January . abandoned at sea, after tho
passengers aud crew had been transferred
Chicago was selected by the Farm
ers' National Convention as the next place Of
meeting, on the Tuesday before the meetin;
of the Fat Stock Show, November, 1887
The Livestock Commissioners of Hi
nois have made a scorching reply to the re-
cent attack of n ]. CoIman, the COMMISSIONS
of Agriculture.
The Germans of Chicago are having
~The Mikado" in tile tongue of the fatherland
McVicer's fine theater is to be occupied thi
week by Isenstein & Sewig's Company, whci
German version of Gilbert ana Sullivan
opera will be sung by cast of cohsiderabl,
strength The translation is by young Ger
man Of Chicago, who is said 10 have accom-
plishel his work with much felicity.